7.
Gender
Man/He ----------–Zhe-----------Woman/She
An internal sense of being a man or a
woman; the societal role one takes
and feels themselves to be.
Also called “Brain sex,”
“Subconscious sex,” or “Gender
Identity.”

8.
Gender Expression
Masculine ----–Androgynous-----Feminine
•Mannerisms
•What gender you get along with best
•What type of activities you enjoy
•How you dress
•How you act

24.
 Deceptive Transsexuals
 Sex is “real,” gender is not.
 Only MTFs exist
 Transgender people are really just gay
 Only gay people could fall in love with transgender
people
 Trans people don’t get happy endings
 Being trans is a choice
 Transsexuals don’t pass
 Transsexuals are all caricatures of female/male-ness

25.
 If you are unhappy with the
constraints of your gender, don't
challenge them. If you are tired of
being stared at for snogging your
same-sex partner in the street,
have a sex change. … Also, those
who "transition" seem to become
stereotypical in their appearance -
fuck-me shoes and birds'-nest hair
for the boys; beards, muscles and
tattoos for the girls. Think about a
world inhabited just by
transsexuals. It would look like
the set of Grease.- Julie Bindel
…one of the main problems that trans
women face is the common belief that
their femaleness and femininity are
somehow fake or inauthentic. This
view is constantly (re)emphasized in
the mainstream media. Transsexual
women are routinely portrayed “in the
act of putting on lipstick, dresses, and
high heels, thereby giving the
audience the impression that the trans
woman’s femaleness is an artificial
mask or costume” (41). Their desire to
be female is reduced to the pursuit of
“stereotypically feminine
appearance(s) and gender role(s),”
which emphasizes that they are not
real women, but men who are simply
parading as women (41).-Julia Serano

26.
ALWAYS respect a person’s identified gender.
Please, don’t ask about:
Old pictures/names
“Can I see a picture of you on the worst day of your life? Can I
see a picture of you at your fattest, at your ugliest, at your
most broken out? With your worst haircut, maybe? Can I see
a picture of you at your most depressed, your loneliest, your
most self-hating? That’s the picture you’re looking at if you
see a picture of me from before. So enjoy raking your eyes
across all that sadness and misery!” –Calpernia Addams
Other personal things, ie. about surgical status, sexual practices
When all else fails, go with identified gender and treat us like
people. 